Aluminum lower air dam.

[magindat]

This weekend while tinkering around, I found some aluminum diamond plate I'd been saving for a 'rainy day'. Meanwhile, I noticed my lower air dam has been trashed by parking stops and the like sooo...

I designed a lower air dam out of aluminum plate. The leading edge is a little shorter than stock and the trailing edge a little longer, but with less angle.

It seems to me this air dam is supposed to foil incoming air to create a vacuum and 'suck' air from the space between the radiator fan and the motor. So, I designed based on that theory.

I put it on, and of course, shiney is beautiful. I tested a couple of my known 'catcher' parking stops and wala! No scrapes. The final test was riding up to Reinhart's (about 3.5 hrs). The water temp ran about 1-1.5 needle widths (I know, real scientifical...) lower than the normal average.

So far, looks great, clears curbs and cools better. I made another and have a prototype on it's way to a supercharged friend to make sure it's all good with SC cars, too.

No pics, yet, but I got a ton of pics to take and will include when I get to it.

[Cobra25]

More air better cooling. I made one last year, a few members called it a "lawn mover". But it worked well and the car did cool better. Since then I improved on it and made 2 new ones , one for ghost03 and another for me. My Old one I gave to RoyLPita. It's twice the length of the stock one and it still clears the parking stops.

[magindat]

I have enough material to make 2 more if any body else wants to try one.

More air better cooling. I made one last year, a few members called it a "lawn mover". But it worked well and the car did cool better. Since then I improved on it and made 2 new ones , one for ghost03 and another for me. My Old one I gave to RoyLPita. It's twice the length of the stock one and it still clears the parking stops.

[Zack]

I would love to try/buy one!
Thanks

[magindat]

I would love to try/buy one!
Thanks

40 bucks should cover material and shipping? Do you think that's fair? I'm not trying to make any money. I just thought it would be cool to share.

[Zack]

Where do I paypal?

[magindat]

PM on the way.

[TooManyFords]

ME TOO!!!

I trashed my plastic one...

John

[Rider90]

I may be interested, I'd love to see pictures. If it is as great as you make it sound I'll bet you can get more than a few people interested.

[magindat]

Pm on the way, John.

[magindat]

Well, I guess I'm kind of prototyping right now. I basically made a couple out of some left over plate I had and only have enough for the 2 requested above. It seems to have helped me, but like anything else, feedback is key.

I think they'd be worth 100 bucks shipped if I was buying new material and making them.

I may be interested, I'd love to see pictures. If it is as great as you make it sound I'll bet you can get more than a few people interested.

I actually had no idea there'd be any real interest.

I'll try to get pics tonight.